Search Results: Authors starting with C from Philip Smith, Bookseller

West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, Inc. - A Great Bear Pamphlet, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 16pp, stapled self-cover. Has $1.50 price and no advertising on back cover. From the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy of an early title in this important series from Dick Higgins's Something Else Press, some outer toning and soil.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 108pp, printed wrappers. From the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy of this late Cage poetic work, minor wear and faint sunning.

Morcella, Italy: StarPress [Star Press], 2003. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. In Italian (Jack Hirschman's preface is also given in English). Very uncommon poetic work. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Milan, Italy: Sedizioni, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 32pp, printed wrappers. In Italian (with "American translation" by Jack Hirschman). Very uncommon poetic work. Unmarked copy, light soil.

Dayton, OH: Nexus, 1990. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 80pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Ira Cohen (a contributor and contributing editor) on the first interior page. Uncommon underground literary magazine, includes Cohen plus Charles Henri Ford, Marty Matz, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near VG in VG+ dw. 8vo, [vi]+202pp, blue cloth with blindstamped design and spine stamped in silver, printed dustwrapper. Stated second printing of the 1970 first edition of this first novel by a 27-year-old writer and Bedford Stuyvesant resident. Unmarked copy, faint signs of damp exposure and slight must, jacket is not price-clipped and has minor edgewear.

New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc, 1948. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 12mo, 192pp, printed wrappers. A very nicely preserved copy of this classic 1948 Avon paperback edition of Paul Cain’s hardboiled masterpiece. Cover slightly crooked, minor reading crease to cover and fray at base of spine, distributor's letters to top edge, very clean and solid overall.

Clemson, SC: The South Carolina Review, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. Scarce literary journal, includes the first publication of the story An Exile in the East by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1978.1), with introductory discussion. Also work by Eudora Welty, Marion Montgomery, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Clarkson, NY: Athanor Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 76pp, stapled wrappers. Includes work by Charles Olson, Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. This copy includes the microbook insert (American Mirrors by Anselm Hollo). Unmarked copy, light outer soil and toning.

Clarkson, NY: Athanor Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 84pp, stapled wrappers. Includes a handwritten 1973 note to contributor Warren Tallman by editor Douglas Calhoun (but lacks microbook insert by John Wieners). Most of the issue is devoted to Robert Creeley. Unmarked copy, outer toning.

Clarkson, NY: Athanor Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 76pp, stapled wrappers. Includes work by Charles Olson, Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. This copy lacks the microbook insert by Anselm Hollo. Unmarked copy, light outer soil.

Clarkson, NY: Athanor Press, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. The rare final issue of Douglas Calhoun's impressive early seventies underground literary magazine. Faint library stamp and initials to front cover (no other markings), minor wear.

LeRoy, NY: Athanor Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 74pp, stapled wrappers. (Lacking the microbook insert by Larry Eigner.) Issue includes part 2 of a lengthy interview with Jack Kerouac (continued from the first issue). Solid unmarked copy with light soil to covers.

LeRoy, NY: Athanor Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Microbook by Edward Dorn and publisher's original first-issue prospectus laid in. Seventeen pages are devoted to part 1 of a lengthy interview with Jack Kerouac. Issue is unmarked with light band of soil to cover; microbook is Fine.

Berkeley, CA: Before Columbus Foundation, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 128pp, stapled self-cover. Book-format anthology of samples from works distributed by the Before Columbus Foundation, with a dizzying array of brief contributions from a range of notables, illustrated with many photos. Also includes a discussion amongst the principals of the Foundation. Unmarked copy, a little sunning to spine and outer wear.

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island / Netzahaulcoyotl Historical Society, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 172pp, printed wrappers. Errata list bookmark laid in. An uncirculated copy of this excellent cultural magazine edited by Bob Callahan.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in Near VG dustwrapper. 8vo, x+200 pp (plus plates), red cloth with spine lettering in silver. A collection of essays on the various ethnic subsocieties in South Africa, as of the early 1950s. Essays include: The Afrikaans-speaking Section, The English-speaking Section, The South-African Jewish Community, The Bantu Peoples, etc. A clean Fine copy in a Near VG dustwrapper that has minor closed tears at extremities and minor edge chipping.

Berkeley: Camera Obscura, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 1602pp, printed wrappers. Seventh issue of this important and influential journal of feminism and film theory. Clean copy with minor wear.

Ann Arbor, MI: Burning Deck, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 60pp, stapled wrappers. First issue of this letterpress literary review from the long-running small press. Includes Robert Duncan (Bertholf C125), Creeley, Zukofsky, et al. Subscription form laid in. Price to first interior page (else unmarked), light wear.

Tempe, AZ: The Synaesthesia Press, 1995. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, 20pp, stapled wrappers. Number 160 of 243 numbered copies of this chapbook containing work by Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Denis Johnson, and Steve Fisher. Unmarked copy, just about as new.